Understanding OKR's

OKR is an abbreviation for Objective & Key Result. The concept was invented at the Intel Corporation and is widely used amongst the biggest technology companies in the world including Google and Zynga.

WARNING: OKR Goals are not Tasks!

Post by Zorian Rotenberg

Companies often confuse OKRs with tasks. Those conversations inspired us to write this post because OKR goals (or generally any organizational goals) are completely different than tasks. In fact, managing and tracking goals at an enterprise has nothing to do with tracking tasks. Understanding that OKRs are not tasks can make goal management significantly less complicated for CEOs and executives. Let’s differentiate the two using the definitions below.